For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.
Andreu Abuín
Notitiae
Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.
Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
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Press clips
A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
Agencia
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
Sarah E. Bond
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.
The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.
The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.
A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
Altar of Iulius Rasci from Borovo
Tauroctony of Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu
Triptic of Tróia
Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte
Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida
Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna
Tauroctony of St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale
Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa
Tauroctony bronze of Szőny
Sententia
No, I think it's not fun, but really superstition. The Romans all wore amulets, often with a phallus…
Fascinating and groundbreaking work on Mithraism! It is still not clear how much the Emesa syncretis…
I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing …
Where is the Mithraeum relative to Herod's temple, the amphitheatre or some other isgnificant landma…
Gracias a ti, Alex. Me alegra que te resulte interesante.
this capital from the cloister of the abbey of Monreal in sicily dates from the 12th century and is …
Añadido al sitio, aquí: https://www.mithraeum.eu/notitia/the-discourse-on-the-eighth-and-ninth-868…
Dear Collegue: May I consult You in order to a potsherd on which the word 'leonis' has beenürn on…
The so-called Elephant Tomb was not a tomb. The data that support its character as a mithraeum deriv…
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